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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  , and social sciences - classes during your time here at MIT.  Of those ... right at the bat of the semester.  At any other time, the grade you get on ... .013 and 7.014 are offered in the spring.  All of these classes cover the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  'd offer a bit of unsolicited advice (but puh-leeze, you know you want it ... offer a statistic for those of you obsessing over the "chance me" threads ... REAL people who, at the end of the day, are still just your [somewhat

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  , for-credit, in-the-catalog-of-classes class, at MIT. That I teach. On ... metric is, at its core, an understanding of distance. We measure distance ... learn analysis at their speed and have all of the resources at their

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  will be "Pulsars"...Please confirm acceptance of this offer by 5:00 PM ... to look at things. --- A couple of weeks ago, my dear friend Davie ... , and it felt like I was seeing it for the first time. At the end of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  at Connecticut College. "Gap year" is a bit of a loaded term, I think ... years. Adds Lee Stetson, dean of admissions at the University of ... taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  to at the beginning of IAP, but there were far smaller mini activities that went on at the same time. Here's a compilation of the ones I can ... offered financial aid for low-income students in the form of TechCash to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  four easy classes and a return offer under my belt, I had a lot of extra ... feature histories of each major at MIT. I *really* want to know if one ... At some point during the semester, when walking to quarantine lunch

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  ="aligncenter" width="300"] a screenshot of HEAVEN[/caption] look at all that white ... this a lot last semester, but i really didn't see ANY of my friends at ... of cool things i had applied to (externships, GTL) in order to go hard

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  critics of elite admissions processes tend to make their cases at the ... the child of a well-to-do family in Beijing, by offering them a great ... at a certain percentage of our class. It gives us the freedom to take

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  , maybe because of it I’ll one day be gr8 at optimizing stuff, but for now ... the computer science minor. 8. Having regrets. At the end of the day ... activities. Well, of course I felt at the time that those student jobs were

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  or radio necessary :)  I've been spending a lot of time at the DZ and ... jumping out of planes.  We jump at Skydive Pepperell, shoot me an email if ... more difficult. In the summer between sophomore and junior year at MIT I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I will graduate tomorrow how I feel about the past five years, and the years ahead of me

  

  favorite thing I’ve done at MIT. I got what I wanted to get out of it, and ... I found out that a good handful of my SSP friends at MIT were applying ... enjoyed and gotten a lot out of."]CS degree here.[/annotation] Getting over

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 27, 2026
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  Wellness (DEW), was amazing. DEW was nobody's first choice of FPOP, at least ... appreciate the breadth of MIT offerings for athletes and beyond. The main ... ropes and trapeze—I made it up and out! At the end of the day, the group

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  thought I'd talk a little about the jobs I've had at MIT. I've had a job of some sort since Registration Day of my first term at MIT, and I'm glad ... freshman, because there's a lot of downtime, so I was pretty much stuck at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  seem very nice; the lady offered me one of her crackers. We're flying ... Sierra Nevadas," he replied, with sort of a snooty glance at the stewardess ... alumnae-turned-astronomers at various institutions. I e-mailed all of them

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  transition. And in one sentence, I've completely ruined your hope of being surprised at what this entry was about and where it came from. Er.. let ... piece of parchment lodged in the mouth of a dazzling, sparkling horse of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  'd encounter "only at MIT."  To do that, we did about a year of research ... offering in-person information sessions and tours at this time. We hope to do ... 3-108, which was part of the [annotation note="Now that we're no

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  felt like I was carrying a lot of stuff at once. It was so ironically in ... community, hard at work pursuing projects, bright and energetic. One of the ... . Being happy, to a degree, is part of your health--in particular your

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  , when they offer me tomato salad at dinner, they have no idea that I ... of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of ... from one crowded platform to the next— the amount of times I had dropped

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  took 6.S978 to try my hand at the intersection of law and technology ... the video conferencing setup, with two of us at MIT, two of us at ... important?[/caption] Hello, hello! I finally have WiFi (most of the time), a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019